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Roswell Daily Record THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY

Kintigh’s bill passes House, 61–0

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JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER

A legislative measure co-sponsored by Rep. Dennis Kintigh, RRoswell, that would develop a unified systematic approach to address the state’s behavioral health needs, passed the House 61-0 Thursday, and is headed to the Senate Rules Committee. House Joint Memorial 16, cosponsored by Kintigh and Sen.

Ezzell said Republican members of the committee are going to attempt to bring up Roch’s bill again today to do a side-by-side comparison with Miera’s bill.

Mary Kay Papen, D-Las Cruces, would establish a state Interim Behavioral Health Services Com-

mittee. Kintigh described behavioral health, which he said encompasses mental health and substance abuse, as a monstrous issue in New Mexico. The committee, if established, would collaborate with entities that currently deal with behavioral health needs throughout the state. Concerned from a criminal justice perspective, Kintigh said, “People who have behavioral health or mental health issues are falling through the

cracks in the criminal justice system, or even ending up in the criminal justice system. That was one of my frustrations as chief of police is how much law enforcement is called upon to deal with behavioral health issues.”

After passing the House floor by a vote of 56-10, Kintigh’s House Bill 42, which would change the

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RPD hosts meth lab training program Members of area law enforcement agencies perform exercises involving a mock meth lab, Friday, at an empty house located at 1207 E. Alameda St.

JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER

The Roswell Police Department hosted a training program for law enforcement and emergency response agencies

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As a freshman, she won a 4A state doubles title with Halie Harton. As a junior, she placed third in the state singles tournament. For many high school tennis players, that would be a career’s worth of hardware and almost all would be content with the above accolades. That is not the case for Goddard’s Gabby Joyce. Joyce has spent the past nine months evolving as a player and on Friday ... - PAGE B1

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who must be able not only to recognize the items that are commonly used in the illegal production of methamphetamines, but also to deal with the dangerous chemicals used in their manufacture. The

Roswell-based class included of ficers from RPD, Las Cruces Fire Department, and Clayton and Angelfire police departments. “The biggest concern is how explosive it is. In one

instance, an officer had his arm blown off during a raid,” said MERIT Training Program instructor Jake Kelton. He said that the goal is See METH, Page A7

Water grab riles many

See HOUSE, Page A7

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — The thought of sinking more than three dozen wells in the San Augustin Plains of western New Mexico and pumping out billions of gallons of water each year to meet demands miles away has hundreds of New Mexicans riled up. A group of rural residents, one of the state’s largest irrigation districts and others consider it a moder n-day water grab. They say it flies in the face of a Western water doctrine that has been in place for more than a century to keep speculators from profiting off the sale of water to thirsty users. “The issue really is as old as New Mexico,” said Bruce Frederick, an attorney who represents more than 80 people who are protesting the effort by the Augustin Plains Ranch, a New Yorkbased commercial venture. The jockeying for water started decades ago with efforts to divert the flow of

Prez backs off policy Syria: Suicide bombers kill 28 WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead. Obama’s compromise means ultimately that women would still get birth control without having to pay for it, no matter where they work. The president insisted he had stuck by that driving principle even in switching his approach, and the White House vehemently rejected any charac-

terization that Obama had retreated under pressure. Yet there was no doubt that Obama had found himself in an untenable position. He needed to walk back fast and find another route to his goal. The controversy over contraception and religious liberty was overshadowing his agenda, threatening to alienate key voters and giving ammunition to the Republicans running for his job. It was a mess that knocked the White House off its message and vision for a second term. Leaders from opposite sides of the divisive debate said they supported the outcome — or at least suggested they probably could See POLICY, Page A7

See WATER, Page A7

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Two suicide car bombers struck security compounds in Aleppo on Friday, killing 28 people, Syrian of ficials said, bringing significant violence for the first time to an industrial center that has largely stood by President Bashar Assad during the 11-month uprising against his rule. Anti-Assad activists denied any involvement and accused the regime of setting off the blasts to smear the opposition as government forces pummel rebels in one of their AP Photo main strongholds, Homs. State media touted the Syrian workers remove rubble from a damaged military intelligence building at a security compound, which was attacked by an explosion in Aleppo, Friday. See SYRIA, Page A7

Garrison: The most important moments in life exist in the present NOAH VERNAU RECORD STAFF WRITER

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Ann Garrison does yoga at her home, Friday.

What do economics, horseback riding and yoga have in common? Ann Garrison, who has been teaching yoga in Roswell since 2001, believes the answer might surprise you. “The kind of yoga I do is based on the alignment of the body,” Garrison says, “how you arrange your legs and ar ms and body in a functional way. Well, what in the world is economics about? It’s about the allocation of scare resources in a variety of ways to make us better off.” Garrison grew up in Colorado Springs, Colo. She

has loved horses since she was 4, and when she turned 8, her father suggested somebody ought to put her on a horse to get it out of her system. “That was his mistake,” Garrison said.

Garrison earned a master’s degree in economics in 1972 at Colorado State University, where her fields of specialization were monetary economics, public finance and developmental economics. She taught economics in Colorado for 35 years, but never lost interest in horses, owning several over the years.

In the early 1990s, she took a trip to Denver, where she came across a yoga

workshop. The instructor told her that before she got on her horses again she should give yoga a try — and so she did. “You can’t believe how stiff I was,” Garrison said. “I thought, ‘I can’t do this at all.’ But the next day when I got on my horse, what she taught us to do on the ground I could do on the horse, and I could feel what I should be able to feel.” In 1997, Garrison moved

to Roswell, and began regularly attending yoga workshops in 1998. She says she came to teaching yoga in 2001 by accident, after a teacher’s absence placed Garrison into the role of yoga instructor. She has been teaching yoga ever since, applying her broader experiences with economics and riding into a form of yoga called Iyengar, which See SPOTLIGHT, Page A2


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